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Jharkhand's power play
THE RESIGNATION OF the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, brings down the curtain on the first act of the grubby drama that was recently played out within the Jharkhand legislature. Given the depths to which the politicking and the posturing sank, ...
War clouds over the financial markets
THE SENTIMENT IN the financial markets in India as elsewhere has been adversely affected by the threat of a war over Iraq. Many have argued that the threat rather than the final outcome will prove more injurious to the markets and by extension to ...


Leader Page Articles
Budgeting for growing inequities
By Kamal Nayan Kabra

The absence of any macro-economic and socio-economic strategy to ensure the minimum needs of the masses is evident in the budget for 2003-04 too.
What ails Bt cotton?
By Debashis Banerji

The claim of the genetic engineering industry to precision, predictability and safety is not backed by its own experiences or by the science of genetics.


News Analysis
Iraq: fools rush in?
By Sudhanshu Ranade

"We are following a carrot and stick policy," said the then U.S. Secretary of Defence, in the months preceding the 1991 Desert Storm operation; which was eventually launched with the sanction of the United Nations Security Council to get the ...


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